Beyond Zine
Project: Beyond Zine
Brief: Create an illustrated zine capturing the intimate lessons and reflections gathered during a solo journey through the Azores islands
Role: Author, Illustrator & Designer— documented daily insights in a travel journal, then transformed them into illustrations and short written pieces for the final zine.
Idea: Treat the island as a living dialogue partner — turning fleeting encounters with trees, lakes, coasts, and leaves into meditative visuals that echo the quiet wisdom of nature.
Impact: A personal art piece that invites readers to slow down and tune into the subtle teachings of the natural world — shared with my community as a limited-edition, hand-bound zine.
Concept: Beyond Zine is a conversation on paper — each page distills a small lesson from nature, reminding us how deeply the environment can guide us when we choose to listen.
It all began one day in Lisbon.
Surrounded by the concrete of the city
I realized I had lost my connection
to the natural world.
I could no longer see
the tree that my wooden chair
once had been, could no longer
feel the soil under the pavement
on my street. I knew then
and there that I had to throw my body
back into the wilderness to find my truth again. And that’s exactly what I did.
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